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SUMMARIES
NZMJ Obituaries
Sharing the life of those who shared so much themselves.
For over 100 years The New Zealand Medical Journal has been
the leading medical journal for the profession in New Zealand.
Publishing an obituary in the Journal is a way to create a
permanent record and pay tribute to the life of a doctor as
a medical professional and a respected colleague, but most
of all as a person to be remembered.
If you or someone you know would like to write an obituary
for a doctor who has passed on, the New Zealand Medical
Journal would be very pleased to receive and publish it.
For more information on NZMJ Obituaries, please contact:
email: nzmj@nzma.org.nz
phone: 04 494 1025
Rory Stewart
Te Hauora mō ngā Iwi Katoa
Summaries of articles in the New Zealand Medical Journal
Vol 131:1487
Public health and the radio frequency radiation emitted by
cellphone technology, smart meters and WiFi
Susan Pockett
For many years there has existed good scientific evidence that radio
frequency emissions like those put out by cellphones and their base
stations, electricity smart meters and WiFi cause a number of biological
effects likely to result in cancer, dementia and other diseases. However,
the official narrative in New Zealand remains "causation not proven",
"more research needed"—and in the meantime, it's fine for everyone to
be involuntarily exposed to unmonitored levels of such emissions, more
or less all the time. It is suggested that this narrative actually constitutes
a giant experiment in its own right, an experiment which is (1) completely
unethical (in that none of its subjects has given informed consent to
participate) and (2) so badly designed that it actually makes 'proving
causation' impossible, by preventing comparison of the health of an
exposed group with that of a non-exposed group, because the latter no
longer exists. Some recommendations for how to start implementing at
least a weak version of the precautionary principle are offered.